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VIA's Linux Dreams Are Not Materializing

05-24-2010, 02:50 PM

Phoronix: VIA's Linux Dreams Are Not Materializing

Back in 2008 there was the announcement from the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Texas that VIA had joined the open-source driver bandwagon after having abandoned previous open-source attempts. However, for the past two years, this has largely been a media bluff. VIA Technologies did things like appoint an open-source liaison (Harald Welte, who is actually no longer contracted by VIA and didn't even do much for their efforts), launch a VIA Linux web-site (that is ill-maintained and two years later there are still portions of the site "under construction"), but they have done some things like put out some code and republishing old documentation. We're almost half-way through 2010 and it doesn't look like VIA will be doing much this year for their open-source graphics drivers...

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This would require them discarding several notions they've been apparently holding dear to them. They need to jettison the blob thinking for starters and give data dumps of the 3D support like AMD has done to be in the game proper.

The big shame isn't just that they're letting the market segment they are actually playing in slip through their fingers, they've been doing it for YEARS now.

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they simply don't have the skill and intelligence to participate in any kind of OSS development. All their devs know are INT WndProc(HWND, DWORD, WPARAM, LPARAM) and shit. They just can't get their head around the fact that there is any other OS rather than Windows